January 16, 2011
Tags: Balderdash Books and Art, Couth Buzzard Used Books, Sellotape, Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Monday: Gwen, my neighbor who knows a little bit about just about everything, calls to say she has finished The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, it’s good and would I like to borrow it? Half a dozen people have already asked me if I have read it. Half of them have told me it’s too Read the Rest…
November 18, 2010
Tags: Armistead Maupin, Girl Scouts, San Francisco
Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold. Do you remember singing that song in grade school or in Girls Scouts? Pigtailed little girls holding hands in a circle, ensconced in a swirl of harmonies. I, for one, didn’t know what the hell the song was about. I still Read the Rest…